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Meet The Buyer 2024 brings businesses together for Scotland’s largest free procurement event

Scottish Government Procurement

The 15 th annual Meet the Buyer National event takes place on Wednesday, 5 June 2024 at Hampden Park, Glasgow. Meet the Buyer 2024 Alongside headline partners, Scottish Government and Scotland Excel, over 55 exhibitors have already signed up to engage with suppliers on the day. However, all are welcome!

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How Lithuania fast-tracked green procurement

Open Contracting Partnership

The government took three key steps: i) careful planning for the green transition; ii) implementing green public procurement (GPP) in practice with a focus on building the capacity of public buyers; and iii) learning powered by data-driven monitoring with a public dashboard. Or how could buyers minimize the very real risk of greenwashing?

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Will Introducing a Shorter Working Week Have a Negative Impact on Business?

Tracker Intelligence

CEO of American transport business, Diamondback, Ben Eltz, noted: “Very rarely does a person say, ‘I got my work done—now I’m going to go see how else I can help.’” We help businesses like yours on their way to becoming the next public sector supplier, assisting with early engagement, expert advice , tender alerts , and support along the way.

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Using AI for green procurement

Open Contracting Partnership

EU Member States must publish their procurement notices to Tenders Electronic Daily (TED) , so we used TED data to rank the product groups by number of procurement notices, to produce a shortlist of product groups to investigate. Lifecycle stages are in gray, factors are in green, and requirements/certifications are in white.

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Buying local, inclusive and green: How Iowa’s capital, Des Moines, is living its values through better procurement

Open Contracting Partnership

The city had no central online platform for identifying tendering opportunities. Pa Goldbeck, Strategic Performance Manager, and Mary Niichel-Hegwood, Procurement Administrator, participated in an outreach event called “Meet the Buyers”, one of many vendor engagement outreach events the City is doing.

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AI & sustainable procurement: the public sector should first learn what it already owns

University of Bristol

For example, new analytics applied to open transport data can significantly improve procurement planning to support more sustainable urban mobility strategies, as well as the emergence of new models for the procurement of mobility as a service (MaaS). It is difficult enough to have access to information on ‘live’ tender procedures.

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Four essential tips to help contractors get in on the $1.2 Trillion U.S. Infrastructure Bill

Bonfire

trillion dollars on infrastructure, which includes expanding broadband, repairing and rebuilding roads and bridges, improving transportation, and reducing greenhouse emissions. This is also known as making a request for proposal (RFP) or a request to tender (RTT). Remember, we’re talking about $1.2 66 billion for railroads.

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